Right to be informed of arrest grounds and consult a lawyer, with magistrate production and preventive detention safeguards. Article 22 requires that arrested persons be promptly informed of arrest grounds and allowed legal consultation and defence; they must be produced before the nearest magistrate within twenty four hours excluding journey time and may not be detained beyond that period without magistrate authority. Clauses (1) and (2) exclude enemy aliens and persons held under preventive detention laws. Preventive detention is separately regulated by limits on duration, Advisory Board review by judges for continued detention, a right to receive grounds and make representations subject to public interest non disclosure, and parliamentary power to prescribe classes, maximum periods, and Board procedure.
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Right to be informed of arrest grounds and consult a lawyer, with magistrate production and preventive detention safeguards.
Article 22 requires that arrested persons be promptly informed of arrest grounds and allowed legal consultation and defence; they must be produced before the nearest magistrate within twenty four hours excluding journey time and may not be detained beyond that period without magistrate authority. Clauses (1) and (2) exclude enemy aliens and persons held under preventive detention laws. Preventive detention is separately regulated by limits on duration, Advisory Board review by judges for continued detention, a right to receive grounds and make representations subject to public interest non disclosure, and parliamentary power to prescribe classes, maximum periods, and Board procedure.
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